Ayatollah Hermione 12775 Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Can anyone reccommend some good history books? I plan on going to Auschwitz next year so I'd be interested in anything relevant to the Holocaust/WW2. Also anything on the European Empires. I've got a couple but they're largely textbooks for my uni work, rather than anything like Forgotten Voices, still interesting but not really something worth reading in big chunks. If you're not bothered, I can recommend a couple though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34806 Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Presents done, time to handle some holocaust queries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12775 Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Usually how my christmas' go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Can anyone reccommend some good history books? I plan on going to Auschwitz next year so I'd be interested in anything relevant to the Holocaust/WW2. Also anything on the European Empires. I've got a couple but they're largely textbooks for my uni work, rather than anything like Forgotten Voices, still interesting but not really something worth reading in big chunks. If you're not bothered, I can recommend a couple though. Please do. I am interested in history text books, don't really know where to start though. I have A People's History of the World and some Historical World Atlases, that's about it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12775 Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Sorry mate, just seen this now. For WW2, I always recommend Anthony Beevor, particularly Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945 as excellent reads about the later parts of the war. Fives Days in London by John Luckac (I think) follows on from the Battle of Dunkirk and focuses on the UK. Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a monumental read (1000 pages easy, IIRC) but is a vast chronicle of Nazi Germany and the war itself. Of course, with all of these, they're slightly skewed toward.each.historian's biases but still good stuff. The only books I have left that I own from Uni work are Reformation books and one about 1910's Britain (which is boring as sin) but if you want the Tudor ones posted out, I'll do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12775 Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Just finished Mother Night and The Petrified Ants in my attempt to read everything by Vonnegut. Latter is a short story and not up to his normal standard IMO but Mother Night is excellent. Only got Galapagos to get through now, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 The only books I have left that I own from Uni work are Reformation books and one about 1910's Britain (which is boring as sin) but if you want the Tudor ones posted out, I'll do so. Yeah I'll take anything thanks, drop me a PM! I'll check out those reccomendations, see the thing I was worried about when I began to look for historical books was that the authors would have skewed it to their biases as you say. Who is the least skewy historian? Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich sounds like a good one, I'm reading a lot atm so I welcome behemoth tomes. Seen a few interviews with Vonnegut, he came across as a very straightforward chap (with regard to writing) and a funny old crank. I like how he rated all his books. I'm currently reading everything by Orwell, but I'll definitely check out Slaughterhouse 5 when I'm through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38911 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 PM me your address KSA and I'll send on Forgotten Voices of WW1 when I'm finished it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 16781 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 PM me your address KSA and I'll send on Forgotten Voices of WW1 when I'm finished it. Book sharing Toontastic Love I am about to start Mans Search for Meaning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonraider 0 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I have just read The Robbie and Gary book Next I fancy reading The Silmarillion and The Hobbit again to refresh my memory before the Hobbit film comes out end of this year! I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34806 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 PM me your address KSA and I'll send on Forgotten Voices of WW1 when I'm finished it. Book sharing Toontastic Love I am about to start Mans Search for Meaning I've had that for a while, but haven't got around to it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2432 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Read Steve Jobs Biography. Good book. Cliffs: Jobs is an arsehole but he can't help it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I read some pieces on Jobs after he died. By all accounts he was an arsehole, but he seemed to be funny with it. Some of the stories about him, particularly from women he dated, seemed to be straight out of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Apparently some tech magazine (Wired) were going to run a negative profile on him so he rang up the editor and said, "So you've discovered that I'm an asshole.... why is that news?" What isn't so funny is the Apple factories in China. Yeesh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 0 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Bought this the other day, interesting read. I love local history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 16781 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Little Kingdom about Jobs & Apple is a good read. He was a full on bell end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13883 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I'm going to get a couple of new books next week. First on the list Jonathon Wilson's ''Brian Clough - Nobody ever says thank you''. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38911 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 PM me your address KSA and I'll send on Forgotten Voices of WW1 when I'm finished it. Book sharing Toontastic Love I am about to start Mans Search for Meaning You've started a beautiful thing I vote we name it the Wykikitoon Community Library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lake Bells tits 1 Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 These days.. Train book: The Life of Pi by Yann Martel Bedside: A La recherce du temps perdu by Marcel Proust Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 16781 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 PM me your address KSA and I'll send on Forgotten Voices of WW1 when I'm finished it. Book sharing Toontastic Love I am about to start Mans Search for Meaning I've had that for a while, but haven't got around to it yet. Just finished this book Gem, its a great read. I have just been told by a mate about this book - Sober, supposed to be a canny read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Sarah Waters - Fingersmith Really enjoyed Tipping the Velvet (well, who wouldn't? ) and my lass got the wrong end of the stick and gave me this to read. Not bad so far though, very good at conveying a Victorian underclass mindset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Just 'acquired' 4000+ books for the kindle santa brought me. That'll do me until I'm dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12775 Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 The only books I have left that I own from Uni work are Reformation books and one about 1910's Britain (which is boring as sin) but if you want the Tudor ones posted out, I'll do so. Yeah I'll take anything thanks, drop me a PM! I'll check out those reccomendations, see the thing I was worried about when I began to look for historical books was that the authors would have skewed it to their biases as you say. Who is the least skewy historian? Sorry, keep forgetting about this. I like Roberts as a European historian and I've dug out one of his books covering 1860-1945 which I'll send along but you might have to put up with some of my dodgy annotations. I'll send you a PM in a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Started Ron Jeremy's autobiography. He's over the moon with himself for having so many talents. Being in Detroit Rock City doesn't really compare to shagging 14 women for 5 hours and shooting your nerf in their faces on cue though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Small town in Germany. Le Carre 8/10 Lovely spy stuff set in a British embassy in Bonn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12775 Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Got Gene Wilder's autobiography since I've been meaning to buy it for ages and he's funny as fuck. Got all of Cormac McCarthy's books on the Kindle so going to start with Blood Meridian or maybe one of No Country for Old Men or The Road since I've seen the films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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